This is the neighboring town to the town I grew up in. This fellow applied for a permit to bury his wife in the front yard while his wife's body was in cold storage at the local funeral home. His request was denied and he was told no, you can't do that. Apparently he then convinced the funeral home that everything was cool and to bring the corpse on home.Now there is this huge movement to just let her rest in peace, that the local government should stay out of it, never mind that he broke the law to begin with.By the way, this is in a residential area, not in an isolated area.

The My Little Pony Killer:Even a neighbor who got into a fight with Davis over the gravesite - Davis said he punched the man - isn't comfortable with limiting what a homeowner can do with his property.

Yes, this neighbor is so uncomfortable with telling a homeowner what he can and cannot do on his property that he felt the need to get into a fistfight over it. Riiiight.

Krymson Tyde:This is the neighboring town to the town I grew up in. This fellow applied for a permit to bury his wife in the front yard while his wife's body was in cold storage at the local funeral home. His request was denied and he was told no, you can't do that. Apparently he then convinced the funeral home that everything was cool and to bring the corpse on home.Now there is this huge movement to just let her rest in peace, that the local government should stay out of it, never mind that he broke the law to begin with.By the way, this is in a residential area, not in an isolated area.

I think that disinterring her now while the old guy is still alive would be pretty dickish and unnecessary thing to do.

The My Little Pony Killer:Even a neighbor who got into a fight with Davis over the gravesite - Davis said he punched the man - isn't comfortable with limiting what a homeowner can do with his property.

Yes, this neighbor is so uncomfortable with telling a homeowner what he can and cannot do on his property that he felt the need to get into a fistfight over it. Riiiight.

We're talking about the south here. Drunken, uneducated, churchies will usually end up in a fist fight over anything more advanced than saying hello.

The My Little Pony Killer:Even a neighbor who got into a fight with Davis over the gravesite - Davis said he punched the man - isn't comfortable with limiting what a homeowner can do with his property.

Yes, this neighbor is so uncomfortable with telling a homeowner what he can and cannot do on his property that he felt the need to get into a fistfight over it. Riiiight.

going and yelling at someone, even to the point of inciting a physical altercation, is not the same as calling for the state to come and stomp on them.

theorellior:If I was one of his neighbors I'd be a little worried about nasty decomposition fluids ending up in my well water.

There is a reason society regulates burials.

Sanitation people apparently said that's a non-issue. Besides, three years on, you're probably okay in any case.

I find it a little odd that I can bury any number of dead animals wherever I want on my property, but suddenly a human corpse is a health risk. I wouldn't think the decomposer bacteria in a dead human would be that much more dangerous than those in a dead pig, for example.

brerrabbit:nekom: How do you just go ahead and bury someone wherever? How do you even get the body from the coroner/funeral home if you aren't a proper cemetery?

It's not a requirement in many states. As long as a death certificate is made out, the Coroner has no choice but to release the body to the next of kin.

Yes, I have legally buried friends and family buried on the property. Some folks have issues with 5000$ funerals.

We drove my grandfathers body from Colorado to Montana and buried it at his former ranch at the family plot. The body has to be prepared by the mortician to be transported but other than that they have no choice but to release the body. There are some permits/paperwork to transport the body accross state lines. It was a couple grand to pay somebody to move it and would have taken a couple weeks for the permits and paperwork so my uncle just put the coffin in his truck bed and threw a tarp over it. His logic was the ticket was probably the same cost as the permits and we wouldnt have to wait.

All of the anti-HOA idiots should take note of this. If you don't have an HOA, people will start burying dead bodies all over the neighborhood.

/this is how HOA board members actually think//I didn't believe it until I joined my board///Regularly get emails that say things like, "If we let them *insert minor thing like keep the trash cans out past 5PM because the homeowner works late*, this place is going to turn into a trailer park"

RogermcAllen:All of the anti-HOA idiots should take note of this. If you don't have an HOA, people will start burying dead bodies all over the neighborhood.

/this is how HOA board members actually think//I didn't believe it until I joined my board///Regularly get emails that say things like, "If we let them *insert minor thing like keep the trash cans out past 5PM because the homeowner works late*, this place is going to turn into a trailer park"

Lol, my neighborhood has an HOA in name only. All they really do is make sure common areas get mowed. The only rule they've ever enforced that I know of was when a neighbor turned his yard into an actual trailer park. There were like 25 people living in the yard.

My point is, spontaneous trailer parks are easy enough to prevent even if you let people leave their trash cans wherever they want.